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A review by writerreads46
A Red Peace by Spencer Ellsworth
5.0
The story is told from two perspectives, in the first person, and present tense. I loved that the two main characters weren't a king and queen, and the female protagonist isn't another virgin assassin with a heart of gold.
The reluctant hero Jaqi (I mean in full denial all the way through), the natural born scab of two vat born crosses, has a hand in shady business and a not picky love life. She jumps from one heap of trouble to another all for tomatoes (and perhaps two clueless children).
The noble war hero Araskar is a vat born cross who escapes the horrors of war he helped win with drugs that allow him to listen to the music of the universe. (no, really)
Jaqi and Araskar's goals are at odds, but they both don't want two refugee children to die.
Ellsworth's book explores what makes a person good, when does a noble cause stop being noble, how a misinterpretation of a prophecy can make mad men powerful, messiahs might not be saviors and what a person is willing to go through for a tomato.
"Tomatoes!"
The reluctant hero Jaqi (I mean in full denial all the way through), the natural born scab of two vat born crosses, has a hand in shady business and a not picky love life. She jumps from one heap of trouble to another all for tomatoes (and perhaps two clueless children).
The noble war hero Araskar is a vat born cross who escapes the horrors of war he helped win with drugs that allow him to listen to the music of the universe. (no, really)
Jaqi and Araskar's goals are at odds, but they both don't want two refugee children to die.
Ellsworth's book explores what makes a person good, when does a noble cause stop being noble, how a misinterpretation of a prophecy can make mad men powerful, messiahs might not be saviors and what a person is willing to go through for a tomato.
"Tomatoes!"